New Zealand Gazette – 1864 – No. 16

Page 187

✨ Proclamation on Districts



Numb. 16. 187

The New Zealand Gazette.
Published by Authority.

FRIDAY, MAY 6, 1864.

A PROCLAMATION.

Appointing certain Districts under the
"Marriage Act."

By His Excellency Sir GEORGE GREY,
Knight, Commander of the Most
Honorable Order of the Bath,
Governor and Commander-in-
Chief in and over Her Majesty's
Colony of New Zealand, and its
Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral
of the same, &c., &c., &c.

WHEREAS by the "Marriage Act
Amendment Act, 1858," it is enacted
that it shall be lawful for the Governor, at
any time, by Proclamation in the New
Zealand Gazette, to divide the Colony of
New Zealand, for the purposes of the said
Act, into such and so many Districts as he
may think fit, and that every such District
shall be called by a distinct name, and shall
be a Registrar's District, and it is provided
that the Governor may, at any time, revoke
the whole or any part of such Proclamation,
and issue a new Proclamation dividing the
Colony or any part of it anew into Districts, or
increasing the number or altering the
boundaries of Districts, as from time to time
he may think requisite;

And whereas by a Proclamation duly made
and issued, bearing date the 22nd day of
July, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-
three, the Governor, in pursuance of the
said recited power and authority, did
amongst others constitute a District for the
purposes of the said Act, called the
"Wakatip District," the boundaries whereof
were therein set forth, which said Proclama-
tion came into operation and took effect on
the first day of September, one thousand
eight hundred and sixty-three;

And whereas it is expedient to revoke so
much of the said Proclamation as relates to
the said District, and to divide anew the
territory formerly comprised within such
District:

Now therefore I, Sir George Grey, the
Governor of the said Colony, in pursuance
and exercise of the power and authority
vested in me by the said recited Act, do
hereby revoke the said Proclamation, so far
as relates to the "Wakatip District," and
do proclaim and declare that the territory
formerly comprised within such District
shall be and is hereby divided for the
purposes of the said Act into two Districts,
the names and boundaries whereof shall be
as follows:—

ARROW DISTRICT
comprises all that area bounded towards the
North and East by the Wanaka District,
and by the Dunstan District; towards the
South by the Kawarau River; and on the
West by the Watershed of the Shotover and
Arrow Rivers.

WAKATIP DISTRICT
comprises all that area bounded towards the
North by the Province of Canterbury;
towards the East by Wanaka, Arrow, and
Dunstan Districts; towards the South by
Warepa District, by the Province of South-
land, and by the ocean; and on the West
by the ocean.

And I do declare that this Proclamation
shall come into operation and take effect on
the first day of July, one thousand eight
hundred and sixty-four.



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🏛️ Proclamation dividing former Wakatip District into Arrow and Wakatip Districts under Marriage Act.

🏛️ Governance & Central Administration
6 May 1864
Proclamation, Marriage Act, District division, Wakatip, Arrow District, Wanaka District, Dunstan District
  • Sir George Grey, Knight, Commander of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty's Colony of New Zealand